2134/14214 Milena Radenkovic Milena Radenkovic Murray Goulden Murray Goulden Derek McAuley Derek McAuley Richard Mortier Richard Mortier Heidi Howard Heidi Howard Jon Crowcroft Jon Crowcroft Christian Greiffenhagen Christian Greiffenhagen Providing security for wireless community networks Loughborough University 2014 Less Than Best Effort Networks Security Community Networks Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified 2014-03-03 15:23:25 Conference contribution https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/Providing_security_for_wireless_community_networks/9479171 This paper describes a new Internet access paradigm based on Lowest Cost Denominator Networking - the Public Access WiFi Service (PAWS) - that utilises the unused capacity of home broadband connections and provides users who are unable to afford paying for the service with Less-than-Best-Effort access to these resources. We identify the security and architectural challenges faced by the project and propose our solution that enables free internet connectivity to public services for the local community, in a secure and scalable manner.